This Week in Elasticsearch - November 12, 2014

Welcome to This Week in Elasticsearch. In this roundup, we try to inform you about the latest and greatest changes in Elasticsearch. We cover what happened in the GitHub repositories, as well as many Elasticsearch events happening worldwide, and give you a small peek into the future of the project.

Slides & Videos

Where to find Us

We'd love to feature all the great Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana presentations and meetups happening worldwide in this section. If you're speaking or hosting a meetup, let our Director of Developer Relations, Leslie Hawthorn, know!

Czech Republic

Denmark

Simon Willnauer will keynote the DrivingIT Conference in Copenhagen. Stay tuned for more schedule details, but Simon will cover Randomized Testing during his presentation, a.k.a. "evil tests." The conference takes place on November 14, 2014.

France

The 10th Elasticsearch Paris Meetup is on for November 13. RSVPs are now open, so register ASAP. We fill all of our seats very quickly for the Paris meetups.

Hungary

Patches Welcome: Contributing to Apache Projects in a Nutshell - November 17 at 2:40 PM

Your search doesn't work: how to find out whether the search box you offer your users is helping - November 19 at 10:40 AM

ApacheCon Europe is on November 17-21, 2014 in Budapest.

Israel

Shay Banon and Boaz Leskes will both take the stage at DevOps Days Tel Aviv, which takes place November 23-24. Shay will hold a fireside chat on Dev, Ops and Culture, and Boaz will lead a workshop on the ELK stack.

Not heading to DevOps Days? No worries! We've got a meetup planned for November 23. You can register now to attend.

Italy

Japan

The Japan Java Users Group Community Conference is coming up on November 15 in Tokyo. You can hear from our Developer Advocate, Jun Ohtani, on all things Elasticsearch and Kibana. Elasticsearch is proud to sponsor this great community event!

The next Elasticsearch Study Session has been scheduled for November 18 at 7:30 PM. Register now to save your place.

David Pilato will teach you all about How to Make Sense of Your Big Data at Codemotion Madrid on Friday, November 21 at 12:15 PM. Not attending Codemotion Madrid? There's also a meetup scheduled for November 24, where you can hear all about your fellow users' experiences with Elasticsearch. Register now to save your place.

United Kingdom

New Meetup: The London Elasticsearch Meetup will convene on December 10 at 6:30 PM. This one always fills up quickly, so register now to save your place.

United States

New meetup: The Seattle Elasticsearch Meetup will hold its inaugural session on November 20. They're going to talking all things Elasticsearch and Azure, and you're encouraged to bring your laptop and follow along with the presenters' tips and tricks. Register now to save your place.

New meetup: The Wilmington, NC DevOps & IT Meetup will get together on December 4 to talk the ELK Stack. Register now to save your place.

Where to Find You

Our Director of Developer Relations, Leslie Hawthorn, is hard at work to help folks create more Elasticsearch meetup groups and to help meetup organizers find more speakers. If you are interested in either effort, let her know.

Oh yeah, we're also hiring. If you'd like us to find you for employment purposes, just drop us a note. We care more about your skill set and passion for Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash than where you rest your head.

Trainings

If you are interested in Elasticsearch training we have courses taught by our core developers coming up in: